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The author of this work was Fan Hongsi, a native of Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. Fan Hongsi became Assistant Department Magistrate of Dezhou, Shandong Province, in 1628. Later he retired to his home, studied, lectured on Neo-Confucianism, and wrote a number of works. He was a follower of Xin Quan, a Neo-Confucian scholar. A successful candidate at the provincial civil examinations himself, Fan Hongsi presented in his work a number of scholars from Shanxi Province, who lived as early as the Tang dynasty and up to the Ming period. The ...